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Welcome to this year’s World Book Day webpage! We are running a number of competitions this year for World Book Day, and you can find more information further down the page.
Students can collect their physical £1 book voucher from the LRC until Friday, 14th March. They will also have the opportunity to win a £1 World Book Day book during our Cryptic Book Title Puzzle Hunt on World Book Day. More information about this can be found in the competition section of this page. These books have been kindly donated by Devizes Bookshop.
Any remaining £1 World Book Day books after World Book Day will be available for students to take away for free from the LRC until the end of term. You can find more details about the £1 World Book Day books further down the page.
Additionally, staff will be dressing up as their favourite book characters on Friday, 7th March. Staff members who dress up will earn points for their school house, and students can also earn house points by voting for their favourite staff book character costume.
At the bottom of the page, there is also a link to World Book Day’s World of Stories, where you can enjoy our selection of FREE audiobooks. Audiobooks are a brilliant way to experience books being read aloud, whether you’re sharing them with family or friends, or listening on your own.
During this term, we are also running our annual Community Reading House Competition, which will continue until the end of the Easter holidays. We encourage staff, students, parents, and guardians to log all the books, eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines they read onto the online Community Reading Challenge form.
Each time a staff member or student logs a book, house points will be added to their house total.
Parents and guardians can also award house points to their child each time they submit a book they have read for the competition.
All student reading logs will be entered into a prize draw, with one student winning a £10 Amazon voucher. The winner will be announced after the Easter break.
Additionally, we encourage parents and guardians to support their child in accessing Sora, a fantastic online reading app that provides access to thousands of eBooks, hundreds of audiobooks, and a selection of magazines. You can find more information about Sora further down the page.
If you have any questions regarding World Book Day, please feel free to contact Mr Evans, the School Librarian, by email at gee@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk.
Competitions
Cryptic Book Title Puzzle Hunt on World Book Day - Students will be shown four cryptic puzzles, each linked to a book title and subject. Teachers will present one of the four puzzles during Tutorial, Period 1, Period 2, and Period 3 on World Bok Day (Thursday 6th March). At lunchtime, students can come to the lower street to reveal their answers for a chance to win a few £1 World Book Day book, generously supplied for free by Devizes Books.
My Reading Doobles Poster Competition - Students can pick up a My Reading Dooble poster from the LRC. On the poster, you can Dooble all the things that make reading fun for you. The best Dooble poster will win a £10 Amazon voucher. The Dooble poster competition deadline is Friday 21st March. Winner will be announced towards the end of term.
Abbeyfield School Book Mastermind Quiz Competition - Students can take part in the annual online Abbeyfield School Book Mastermind Quiz Competition, where they answer 25 book-based trivia questions, with tie-breaker questions if needed. The student with the highest score will win a book bundle prize. The competition deadline is Friday 21st March. Winner will be announced towards the end of term. You can access the quiz by clicking on the button below:
Community Reading Challenge 2025
Please click on the button below to submit the books, eBooks, or magazines you have read, or the audiobooks you have listened to.
During this term we our running our annual Community Reading Challenge 2025, Which will run until the end of the Easter holidays. We will encourage staff, students, parents, and guardians to log all the books, eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines they read onto the online Community Reading Challenge form.
1) Each time a staff member or student logs a book, 5 house points will be added to their house total.
2) Parents and guardians can also award 2 house points to their child each time they submit a form entry for any eBook, book or magazine they have read or audiobook they have listen to.
3) All student reading logs will be entered into a prize draw for one student to win a £10 Amazon voucher. Winner will be announced after the Easter break.
Also, we would like parents and guardians to try and encourage their child to access Sora are fantastic online reading app where your child has access to 1,000s of eBooks, 100s of audiobooks and selection of magazines.
Our aim is to get all the members of the Abbeyfield School community reading as much as possible because at Abbeyfield, We Read to Succeed!
Parents, carers, grandparents and the whole Abbeyfield community are all included!
World Book Day Books
Become an instant expert on awesome Pokémon and their Trainers! Discover special skills and epic Evolutions and learn about legendary battles and super stats. With this epic Pocket-sized Pokémon guide, you’ll be a top Trainer in no time!
Explore the furthest frontiers of space and the wonders of the world – and learn to build the Universe’s most incredible sights with LEGO bricks! Take a tour of planets, stars, galaxies, and black holes far away from Earth. Discover how the Big Bang created our Universe, dock with a space station, and launch a probe to make contact with extraterrestrials! Travel the continents and look inside volcanoes, check out the world’s tallest waterfall, swim down to the ocean’s depths, and much more. See the most incredible places on our planet and beyond without leaving home! With amazing LEGO models to inspire you, what will you build first?
Written by: Jennifer Swanson and Arwen Hubbard
It’s World Book Day and school is full of kids dressed up as their favourite literary characters and celebrating the magic of reading. But something smells funny… in every classroom, there’s a teacher letting go of a long, loud, ground-shaking, ground-breaking fart. And when our hero spots a fellow pupil (dressed almost too convincingly as an alien) hovering by the teachers’ bums, and then discovers what looks like a spaceship powered by farts behind a hedge, he’s on a mission to stop some unexpected visitors from kicking up a massive stink!
Written by: Stephen Mangan
Rocky Race is going to take football by storm! Bright, tough, and sporty Rocky has always loved football, so much in fact that she’s moved to the United States to train at a high school with an amazing soccer team. She’s made new friends, even won a state championship! But now her best friends from her home in Melchester, England, have come to visit and play a match against her new American team. Rocky is thrilled to see them, but not everyone is happy: her American friends don’t understand their British accents. The British friends don’t understand why the Americans are so loud! Will Rocky be able to take the lead and show everyone that they’re all united by football?
Written by: Tom Palmer
Eira longs to see the world, but as the daughter of the fearsome Wolf Queen she’s lived all her life concealed in the Castle of Broken Boats at the heart of her mother’s kingdom. New subjects and prisoners arrive daily, and no one but traitors and Ryders leave. The Ryders, an elite group of sea wolf-riders who are the Wolf Queen’s most trusted warriors, are selected at a young age after proving themselves in the wolf trials. With her mother away in battle, Eira decides to disguise herself and participate in this year’s selection – but will she succeed? Will she be recognised? And most importantly of all … will she survive the wolf trials?
Written by: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Harley Matthews is a used to fading into the background. That is until Rising Stars, the high-school programme that takes talented students and makes their dreams come true, choose him to participate for the coveted position of winner for this year’s competition.
The first problem? They’ve also chosen Annabella, Billie and Theo. Aka Year Eleven’s most popular and powerful pupils. Aka the Perfect Four. The second problem? They didn’t choose the last member of the Perfect Four: Oliver. The third problem? Harley must compete with them all to win.
Harley’s world is turned upside down as he’s thrust into the school’s limelight. So much for laying low. But with new-found supporters comes envious enemies. And when he finds a chalk outline of his body drawn at the bottom of the school stairs, he has the face the reality that someone wants him out the competition – permanently. But the underdog deserves to win, right?
Remember, this story is a lie.
Written by: Benjamin Dean
Please note: The Story is a Lie is not suitable for younger readers.
World of Stories (Free Online Audiobooks)
World Book Day’s World of Stories, where you can enjoy our selection of FREE audiobooks. Audiobooks are a brilliant way of enjoying books being read aloud, whether you’re sharing them with family or friends, or listening on your own.
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